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Reading Close to Home: Robert Penn Warren

January 02, 2019

Join Professor Ed Francisco for the next installment of "Reading Close to Home," a series of author discussions featuring Robert Penn Warren.

Robert Penn Warren is the only person to receive the Pulitzer Prize for both poetry and the novel. He wrote textbooks that taught generations of Americans to understand fiction and poetry. He founded literary magazines, movements, and a new criticism. A Southerner, he recanted his early views on racial segregation and became an outspoken proponent of the civil rights movement.